Thematic Groups

~ Programme updated 1st of November 2022 ~

THURSDAY 3rd of NOVEMBER 2022 (GMT+2)

13.00-15.00 Thematic Groups 1

Theoretical Perspectives on Men and Masculinities Studies I

Jeff Hearn: The Urgent Need to Re-orientate Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities. (New) Materialisms, Global Crises and the Future

Tuula Juvonen: Queering the bachelor men’s house museums

Stephanie Clark: Hollow men. The absence of new materialist philosophies in masculinity studies

Amanda Klysing: Prototypicality at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation. The Influence of Androcentrism and Heterocentrism

 

Incel Culture and Manosphere

Catherine Baker: “By virtue of having a womb” The Construction of Evidence on the Incel Wiki

Matteo Botto & Lucas Gottzén: Swallowing and spitting out the red pill. Young men’s radicalization trajectories in the manosphere

Emilia Lounela & Shane Murphy: Constructing inceldom in incel online discussions of the Plymouth shooting

Lena Gunnarsson, Evelina Johansson Wilén & Maria Wemrell: Incelhood in Times of Precarious Love

Rachel Pople & Lisa Sugiura: The Dangers of the Black Pill Philosophy

 

15.30-17.00 Thematic Groups 2

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life I

Fanny Reinikka: Men in Service – Changes in Masculine Service Professions in Helsinki, 1880–1930

Ingólfur Ásgeir Jóhannesson, Andri Rafn Ottesen & Valgerður S. Bjarnadóttir: Contradictory expectations to novice male teachers

John Parkin: A phenomenological study of how male educators inspired men to study for a Primary Education Studies degree

 

Politics and Activism

Yotam Ben Meir: Cross-Border Friendships, Bi-National Solidarity and Exit Masculinities among Male Activists in Bi-National De-Colonialization and Peace-Building Movements

Elin Bjarnegård, Michal Smrek & Pär Zetterberg: Intersectionality of Privilege. Multiple Candidate Quotas and Ballot Creation in Sweden

Jussi Heikkilä: Patrimony of Brothers in Arms. Comment on “Introducing the Historical Gender Equality Index”

 

FRIDAY 4th OF NOVEMBER 2022 (GMT+2)

12.45-15.00 Thematic Groups 3

Men, masculinities, and the Working Life II

Johanna Niemi: Possibilities of art-based methods in gender sensitive youth work – case-study of Poikien Talo

Paula Mulinari & Anders Neegaard: White men, trade unions politics and variations of (hegemonic) masculinities

Wilhelm Tosser: The intersection of gender, class, and technology in Swedish mines

Lotta Snickare: Men, Masculinities and Professional Hierarchies in Academia

 

Body Politics

Luca Tainio: The Trans Penis. Negotiations of Masculinity and Sexuality in YouTube Vlogs by Trans Men

Oya Aktas & Jeff Hearn: The politics of male hair. Interrogating hair regulations for Turkish civil servants and civil service union members’ views on the issue

Sanna Erdogan: Masculinities in combat sports coaching

Janine Schulze-Fellmann: Masculinities in Dance_Move it!

 

Fathers and Fatherhood

Malin Henriksson, Dag Balkmar & Tanja Joelsson: On mobilities and care: an intersectional account of fathers’ mobility car/e practices in the urban periphery

Catherine Gallais: A look at parenting through an intersectional perspective: An anthropological study of full-time fathering in the United States

Firouz Gaini: Halfway to become a ‘new man’? Rural masculinity and family life in the Faroe Islands

Benjamin Kalkum: Religious gender norms as an antidote to hegemonic masculinity? Qualitative evidence from interviews with married Christian men in Zambia

 

Masculinities across Global Contexts

Iva Šmídová: Institutions of Aging Men. Czech Context and Beyond

Aida Jobarteh: Black migrant man. Translocal masculinities

Mohamad Zeino: ‘Guest or Refugee’ Negotiations of masculine identity in relation to Turkish politics, society and history

Duru Basak Ugurlu: “Neither an Eastern nor a Western…like a Freak” Hookah Café Masculinity as a New Form of Hybrid Masculinity

Helena Hill: Masculinity in crisis. Men’s movements in Sweden 1985-2020

 

15.15-17.15 Thematic Groups 4

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life III

Julia Gruhlich: The possibility of transforming hegemonic masculinity – a praxeological perspective

Natasha Webster: The More-or-less digital narratives of masculinities, gig economy, and migration in Beforeigners

Henri Hyvönen, Laura Mankki & Helena Hirvonen: Formations of hybrid manhood in the experience economy

 

Theoretical Perspectives on Men and Masculinities Studies II

Andria Christofidou: Changing men and masculinities: intersectional explorations

Klara Goedecke: “There may be feelings” Emotionalities and gender in men’s gambling

Mari Välimäki: Intersectionality as a Method for Studying Early Modern Students

Ilari Taskinen: Men’s intimate letter writing practices in Finland, 1939–1944

 

Men, Masculinity and Violence

Manuel Bolz: Male revenge? Gender theoretical perspectives on biographical revenge stories and crisis narratives

Rannveig Á. Guðjónsdóttir & Jón Ingvar Kjaran: Discourses of fathers and violence in the Icelandic mass media

Guillermo Valverde: Rethinking Masculinity. Working with Perpetrators of VAW Amid an Anti-Feminist Backlash

Sune Qvotrup Jensen: Radicalization as re-masculinization

Frederic Heine: The Transnational Manufacturing of Rage and the agential trajectories of a new politics of masculinity